I could scan a fiche in about 10 min with an Epson transparency
scanner. I think Al may have an actual digitizer but they are expensive.
As to the fiche reader you got, I've never seen one with a plastic
carrier. They always had glass in my case.
On the one I have you can pop out the view screen, and the lens is about
the size of a small microscope objective. Mine came with one for fiche,
and one for aperture cards. The lenses were easy to slide out and swap.
See if you find one for the scale you need for DEC on epay maybe? I am
glad you have the magnification value, I've only had ones which were
multiples of a base size, so 1x, 1.2x etc.
The Epson I mentioned has the XP era driver to allow their software to
create a template for scanning. Once you have identified the size of a
page on the media, I found it easy to just move it to plop over top of
each of the other images, then could scan the fiche as fast as the
scanner could run.
It was one of their Precision models which could do 5.7 transparancies.
I created a small guide to position the fiche itself in the same spot,
so I only had to build up the template once.
Thanks
Jim
On 10/3/2016 9:49 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
1. The reader was for x 42 but the fiches are x52.
2. The plastic fiche holder consisting of two sheets of stiff
and clear plastic connected together at one end is scratched to hell.
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